#urbit

[utilitymonstermash]

I know this is going to sound nuts, but there is some beautiful graphic design on Urbit. (Yes Moldbug's Urbit.) A lot of it is mood-board but there's some great oc as well.

[ftwk]

[the-prodigal-stunna]

If what you're doing is not a grift, it is going to succeed eventually [...] and if your relationship with God is strong, if you can attest to the things that you believe in through your works, it's going to work out. No one can take that away from you, because that's not there's to take.

Vincente Void, “Only God Can Cancel Us: On Immanent Cyberculture with Endproject”

[baroquespiral]

One of the joys of our engineering inheritance from the 20th century, which was really humanity's golden age of political insanity, is that we get to stand on the shoulders of loons. We fly Christian astronauts into space on Nazi rockets programmed by Communist physicists. And it works...

urbit negging itself on Hacker News

[reddragdiva]

Do you think it's upsetting to be Curtis Yarvin? You spend years of your life building a political philosophy to serve as the intellectual foundation of a new reactionary movement and then nrx goes mainstream by morphing into the alt-right, discarding all of your work, and becoming the shittiest reactionary movement in decades. And despite all that you STILL get protested whenever you attend CS conferences.

i think he is sustained by his firm belief in his own unshakable correctness and the nourishing and life-giving properties of huffing his own farts. all reactions and their opposites are further evidence of his correctness.

also urbit is still computational time cube.

[reddragdiva]

Urbit's going to set up on the Ethereum blockchain. This move is not universally popular, so dissenters are forking!!

And they have managed to out-Urbit Urbit: they are writing their constitution, not in English, but in Lojban.

dig this shit

You know, when Urbit announced it was going Ethereum, I realised I’d probably have to write about it on my blockchain blog. The thing about that blog is, it’s explicitly for the purpose of promoting (a) the book (b) me as blockchain pundit. That means that it has to be fluffy, liberal, reasonable, all-things-to-all-people.

How the fuck do I get across basic facts about Urbit:

Yarvin is literally an aspiring fascist

No really, his fame is as the provider of what passes for intellectual underpinnings for the alt-right

Yes, the actual neo-Nazis waving literal Nazi flags in Charlottesville that you saw in all the papers

though actually he and they don’t get along, and explaining that is “racists: ahaha that’s a spectrum buddy” material

His fame as a fascist is the only reason anyone paid attention to Urbit

Urbit is deeply insane on every level, as much as the non-Yarvin people at Tlon have tried to disguise it

look, I literally want 60-year-old Daily Mail reading retirees to feel OK about reading my book, or at least to know never to buy a bitcoin. So my blog can get technical about Bitcoin with due warning, but it needs to not politically stress people who don’t have a wide spectrum of thought. Can you imagine such a person comprehending anything whatsoever about Urbit, and realising that such a thing could exist in the world? They’d go mad with a machine gun in public.

And then! And then! How do I get across that someone was outraged enough to fork, and that they thought writing their fork’s constitution in Lojban was the obvious sensible move. And why I’m WTFing at this. I want a machine gun for that one.

cc @you-have-just-experienced-things

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